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The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1887-10-14
The Truthful Pilot.

The passenger, who was going down
the big river for the frat time in his
life, secured permission TO- climb up
beside the pilot grim old grayback
VINO never told b lie IN his life.
"Many alligstors In this riverf'i In
quired the stranger after look sround.
"Not so many now, since they got
TO shootin' 'em for their hides and
taller was the reply.
''Used to be lots ehi"
~ don't want to tell you about EN-,
stranger replied the pilot, signing
heavily.
"Whyi"
"Cause you'd think I was a lyin' to
you, and that's sumthin' never do.
Kin cheat at kerds, drink whisky or
chaw poor tebackcr, but l can't lie.'
"Then there used to be lots Of 'emf'
inquired the passenger.
aI'm most afraid TO tell yer, mister,
but I've counted 'leven hundred ally
CATERS to the mile from Vicksburg cl'aI
down to Orleansi That was years ago,
afore q shot was ever fred at 'em.
"well don't doubt IT," replied the
stranger. sl.lI. 34.4
"And I've counted 3,459 Of 'em On
one sand bari" continued the pilot. il
looks big to tell, but q Government
surveyor was aboard, and checked EN-
off as called OUT
81 haven't the least doubt of it,
said the passenger, as be heaved q
sigh.
"Tm glad O that, stranger. Some
fellers would think was liar, when
I'm telling the solemn truth. Thi'
used to be a paradise for allygaters
and they were 90 thick that the wheels
of the boat killed an avefsge o. forty
to the mile!"
SIS that so!" l,...-l
"True as gospel, mister. l nsed tc
almost feel sorry for the cussed brutes
cause they'd cry out e'ensmost like
human beings. We killed lots OF 'em
as I said, and we hurt pile more. ]
sailed with one captain who allus car
ried Thousand bottles Of liniment tt
throw over the wounded ofies.
HE didf' ar tof
"As true as you live, he did. I dom
'spect I'll ever see any such kind
Christian man. And the alligator
| got to know the Nancy Jane, and 4
know Captain Tom, and they'd swim
out and rub their tails agin' the boat
and pur like cats an look up an try tt
smile"
"They wouldi'
SSolemu truth, stranger. And ono,
when we grounded on q bar, with Ss1
deposition boat right behind, the Ial
llygaters gathered around, got nndel
her stern, and bumped her clean Owe
the bar by grand 'pushl 1t looks lik'
big story, but never told q lie yet
and 1 never shall. ! wouldn't lie TO
all the money you could put aboart
| this boat" "
There was painful pause, and afte
| q while the pilot confined: I
'Our injihes gin out once, and
lcrowd OF allygaters took , tow line AM
hauled us forty miles mp stream u
| iVicksbnrg." ' ~ y,
"They didi"
| "And when the news got along th,
river that Captain Tom was dead
every alligator in the river dadbed hi
ileft ear With black mud as . badge b
mournin, and lots Of 'em pined ava
land died" i.d Il.
The passenger left the pilot hous
| vith tho ranark that he didn't doub
tthe statement, but the old man CAV
the wheel q turn and replied.
'There's one thing ! won't do TO
love nor money, and that's make
Eliar of myself. Ivss brung up by
good mother, and I'm going to std
to the truth if this s'bbat doesn't 7nisk
q cent"
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1887-10-14
Arrival at Saratoga.

Wall. we descended from the cars
and went TO the boardin place provid-
ed for us beforehand by the look ont
of friends. II wuz q good place, there
haint no doubt Of that, good folks;
good fare and clean.
Ardelia parted away from us at the
depo. She wuz goin' to smaller
boardin' house KEEP by second cousin
Of her fathers brothers wife's aunt II
wuz her fathers request that she should
get her board there on account OF its
bein' in the family. He loved "to see
relations hang together" 80 he said,
and "get their boards Of each other.
But l thought then, and l think now,
that it was because they asked less for
the board. Deacon Tut Is close. But
|howsumever Ardelia went there, and
my companion and me srrove at the
abode where we wux to abide, with nc
eppisode only the trifin' one of the
driver bein' dretful mistook as 10 the
price he asked to take US there.
Thought and Josiah thought that
so cents wuz the outlay Of expeudathr
he required to carry us where We
would be; it wuz but short distance
But mol He said that s dollars wu,
wha. he said, that is, if we heard any
thing about q s. But he thought We
wuz deef, and dident hear him. He
thought he spoke plain, and said 4
dollars for the trip.
And on that price he sot down i'm
movable. They argued, and Josiah
Allen even went 80 far as to use lang.
usge that grated on my nerve, it wu1
so voyalent and vergin' on the profane
But there the man sot, right onto that
price, and he had to me the appearance
Of one who wuz goin' to sot there OF
| il all night. And so rather than to
spend the night outdoors, in conversa-
tion With him, he a settin' on that
price, and Josiah q shakin' bis fist al
It, and q jawin' at it, l told Josiah that
be had better pay it. And finally he
did, with groanin's that could hardly
be uttered From Samantha d
Saratoga by Josiah Aliens WVe
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1887-10-14

The Gazette, of Venice, was the orig
inal model of the modern newspaper.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1887-10-14


In gathering wild flowers, autumn
leaves, or picknioking in the woods,
we are more or less exposed to danger
from poisoning by Ivy or other Wild
vines and shrubs. The poison Is under
certain circumstances readily absorbed
by the blood and painful sweliings OF
eruptions are caused. Such affections
Hoods Ssrsapsriiia readily cures, as i
expels oil impurities from the blood
Even in cases of poisoning by Parii
green, Hoods Sarsaparilla has been re
markably successful. 1t should b,
kept constantly in. the house for al
blood disorders, Hoods Sa<sapariilI
is prepared by G. /. Hood q Co,
Lowell, Mass, and is sold by all drug
gists. 100 doses 81.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1887-10-14

One by one the landmarks of the
Revelation are disappearing. Hamil-
ton Grange, located on the east side of
Tenth avenue, between l4lst and l45th
streets, once the home of Alexander
Hamilton, has been invaded by small
army of mechanics and laborers, who
are digging sewers, grading streets,
building houses, and otherwise forcing
the natural beauties of scenery TO give
way to the march of modern improve
ments. Convent avenue is laid out
through the centre of the farm. OF
the thirteen trees planted by Alexan-
der Hamilton, it is said, to oommemo-
rate the original States of the Union,
twelve are still standing. The other
tree died about the time that South
Carolina seeded from the Union.-Ea
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1887-10-14

The Board rencs Method.

dts all humbug to talk 10 me Of tht
benefits OF advertising," said the sour
looking man: ~ spent $l75 last yea
in advertising, and was closed out by
the Sheriff in January. The none!
was wasted, sir, every cent Of it. Ad
vertising is no good
"What papers did you advertise in!
inquired 3 sympathetic bystander.
"What papers! Thunder! ! didn'
use any papers. had my advertise
ment painted on fence boards. -
Chicago Tribune.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1887-10-14

TO harvest the grain on the great
Dalrymple farm in Dakota great
quantity of twine is needed for binding
the bundles. One shipment of nine
car loads was sent the other day from
Boston, on which the express charges
were nearly 100000.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1887-10-14
PERRINE'S BARLEY RRRH MALT WHISKEY.

The analysis as it appears by the La
bel on every bottle; IhRye carefully an
alyzed the PURs BAILEY MALT WHIs1
KEY made by N. q j, s. Perrine and fnQ
metals and acids and Is absolutely
pure. Signed, Camilla Arthur Mater,
Graduate or The Uniperstttes or Kunteh,
Geneva and Wets0dden Wy
Morning journal and courier., 1887-10-05

| might be on it. Finally the land was satu- l rated with benzine oil. In one case eight acres and in the other three-quarters of an acre had to be treated in this way.
 The scientific proof that Australia was once 6 part of the main land is thus set forth in the Cornhill Magazine: About the beginning of the tertiary period, just after the chalk was all deposited and just before the comparatively modern clays and sand stones of the London basin began to be laid down, an arm of the sea broke up the con- nection which once subsisted between Aus trslia and the rest of the world, probably by land bridge, via Java, Sunatra, the Malay peninsula and Asia generally. "But how do you know," asks the candid inquirer, 'fthat such a connection ever existed at alli' Sim- ply thus, because there are large land man. mals in Australia. Now, large land mam- naals do not swim across 8 broad ocean. There are none in New Zealand, none in the Azores, none in Fiji, none in Tahiti, none in Teneriffe-none, in short, in any oceanic island which never at any time formed part of & great continent. How could there be, indeed. The mammals must necessarily have got there from somewhere, and whenever we find islands like Britain,e or Japan, or New foundland, or Sicily, possessing large and abundant indigenous quadrupeos of the same general type as adjacent continents, we see at once that the island must formerly have been 6 mere peninsula, like Italy or Nova Scotia at the present day. The very fact that Australia encloses large group of biggest quadrupeds, whose copgeners ono @ inhabited Europe and America, sufices in itself to prove beyond question that unin- terrupted land communication must once have existed between Australia and those distant continents
Morning journal and courier., 1887-10-05
THE HOTEL SYSTEM.
What BilI NYe Has to Say About Iti
 Changes.

What Bill Nye Has to Say About 1ts
 Changes.
 Let us for moment look at the great changes that have been wrought in hotels during the past century, writes Bill Nye in the New York World. How marked has been the improvement and how wonderful the advancement. Everything has been changed. Even the towels have been changed!
 Electric bells, consisting of & long and alert wire with an overcoat button at one end and reticent boy at the other, have taken the place of the human voice and 8 low-browed red-elm club. Where once we were compelled to fall down dark, narrow staircase, now we can go down the elevator or wander down the wrong stairway and find ourselves in the laundry.
 Where once we were mortified by being compelled to rise at table, reach nine feet and stab 6 porous pancake with our fork, meantime wfping the milk gravy out of large yellow bowl with our coat-tails, now we can hire 8 tall, 1.-the gentleman in full dress suit to pass us the pancakes. Even the barrooms of American hotels are changed. Once the bartender waited till his customer ran all his remarks into one long, hoarse word, with 8 hiccough on the end, and then he took hin by the collar and threw him out into the cold and chaotic night. Now the bartender gradually rises on the price of drinks till his customer is l frozen out, and while he has gone to the reading room to borrow some more money l the chemist moves the bar somewhere else,
Morning journal and courier., 1887-10-05
THE VIKINGS GRAVE.
How a Morse Hero's Remains Wer
 Laid to Rest.

How a Morse Hero's Remains Were Laid to Rest.
 [From Blackwood's Magazne.1 His feet were turned little north of
 west, as if he was laid to face the direction
 of the setting sun, for several vertebrae of
 the back lay continuously along the center, and beyond these was the left thigh bone, says 8 writer in Blackwood's Magazine, describing the burial of @ Viking. He had
 worn a woolen surcoat, edged with beau
 tiful frilling of gold, and buckled at the
 neck with golden clasp, for some traces
 of woven woolen fibre were found ad
 herring beneath fragment of decayed wood,
 and numerous shreds of gold tissue, some
 times ten inches in length, gathered up in-
 to fringe of an inch in width, were scat
 tered for some two yards along the middle
 of the grave; and above these was buckle,
 four inches long, made of four ounces of
 pure gold, richly chased, and set with gar
 nets and with ornaments of colored enamel,
 which still retains it's brillianey. He wore
 also belt of stamped leather, fastened by
 two gold buckles, of only less beautiful mantle, for the buckles were lying at about
 the center. .of the body, and a fragment of
 the leather remained i'll one of them. Over
 his lap was laid his shield, circular, two feet
 in width, it's under side of wood, strength ened with ring of iron, it's outer side in- caGeO W1Gn DrOuZ0; duu poTI1OuS OA 6u1s were
 found, the central ring lying three feet from the brooch buckle, and serving to give some
 idea of the hero's stature. His hands were
 placed across the shield as he lay, as if to
 clasp it to his breast; and attached to the
 sleeves he wore bracelets or armlets of
 bronze, with serrated edges and rims of gilded silver-for these were found, with traces of the woolen fabric of his under gar ment still adhering to the rims, lying above the fragments of the shield. His large two edged sword of iron, thirty inches long, in it's sheath of wood, was laid at his side, and close to his hand was the seax or dagger of iron and barbed javelin lay near; for all of these were found, some in the last stages of
 decay, together with many lesser fragments of bronze and iron, which may have been
 portions of his armor. To the right of his
 feet was placed bucket, such as Saxons com monly carried in their war ships; and though fattened by the pressure of the earth upon
 it, this bucket was sufficiently preserved to show that it's materials were of the same character as those of the shield.
Morning journal and courier., 1887-10-05
Wednesday, October 5, 1887.
THE MARYLAND GANG.

THE mA6 LAND GANGs
 The revolt of the independent Democrats of Maryland against the gang controlled by Senator German, Higgins and others evident ly means business. The address which has just been issued by them is one of the strong est and most interesting documents that have lately seen the light. It thus describes some of the operations of the gang: This organiza- tion has banded together the criminal classes of the oity for election and other purposes. Certain local leaders in each ward-men of the worst character; frequently men with l long criminal records-are given the distribu- tion of certain portions of the citys patron age, to be used in keeping together bands of I roughs and ballot thieves. These ward lead- 1 CTS, in return for the patronage which is given them, supply the men for carrying elections by fraud, and in some of the lower
 wards keep together the thugs and cut
 throats employed to overawe those who op- pose the plans of the managers. In many cases inoffensive men are assaulted by their agents, and in more than one instance they have not stopped at deliberate murder. Seven men have been appointed to office under the city, State and national governments within
 few months past who have taken human
 life, and these appointments have not been
 made by oversight, but in spite of all protest.
 In most cases they were reappointments.
 It is further asserted that this gang has ap-
 pointed to public office thieves, burglars, ex-
 press robbers, murderers and men stained with every crime. It has burned the ballots when in the custody of the clerk of the court, and the perpetrators of the act have publicly boasted of it; indeed, every one connected with that act has been rewarded from the public treasury. It has secured places in the government employ for the two most notori- ous election thieves in the city. It has garri- soned ward with ruf1ians and kept them in the city's pay. Of twenty-three State and federal employees in that ward we have found nineteen whose names appear on the criminal records of the city. Worse than all, the at torney of the organization, to whom it has committed the drafting of the election laws, has defied the statute books with laws fitted only to be the instruments of fraud.
 It is this gang which appears to have the support of the reform President of the United States. No wonder that many of those who were formerly his mugwump friends are dis gusted with him and ready to call him hypocrite so long as he stands by German,
 Higgins 6 Co.
Morning journal and courier., 1887-10-05
COMMUNICATIONs,

Does He Ge Around the Squirrel3
 To the Editor of the JOURNAL AND COURIER:
 Suppose man on one side of a tree ten feet from the center of the tree and squir- rel directly opposite the man on the other side of the tree five feet from the center of the tree. They both run around in the same direction, describing 8 circle, keeping the tree in the same relative position between them. Does the man go 'around" the squir- rela Webster's definition of "around" is Con all sides of; about; encircling; encompass ing" I maintain that the man has gone around the squirrel when he has made com plete circumference of the tree. If he has, the above definition is inaccurate, as the man does not appear to have gone Ion all sides of' the squirrel. Will some mathematician please ansUer2 J.
Morning journal and courier., 1887-10-05
Risle1 1Ianen11E.
FALL CLOTHING.

Trade is now making great headway be- cause it's builders find purchases worthy of their money It is true that the market never afforded better opportunity to every class of buyers, the very economical or the free spender.
 Mems and Young Mems Suits.
 All the new fabrics in latest design and cut. Sacks, single and double breast, 1-but- ton and 4-button cutaway frocks, Stripes, checks, plain goods and mixtures. Prices, $7 50, $s5o, s1O, $12, s13.5O, $15, s16.50, SIS, s20, $22, $2S, $25, $28, $90.
 Black whipcord dress suits, 1-button, 4 button, cutaways and Prince Albert frocks. Prices, s1O, s15, $eo, s2s, $25, s2s, $50. Ex- tra sizes for portly men. Fall OvercOats. A full assortment of all new shades of new cloths in kerseyz, serges and Meltons in short and extra short lengths, with all silk lining, silk sleeve lining and silk facing. Prices, s6 50, $7.5o, $9.5O, s1O, s12, s15, SIS, SEQ. s22, $25, $25. Winter OVercOats. Eiyslan beavers, oAue auo OA1oN' las, blue and black; kerseys, black, brown, gray. Prices, s75o, $1O, SIP, $15, s2O, saa, $25, s28, $50. PRntRlOOHs. A fine showing in gentlemen's and boys in the new stripes and mixtures. Prices, mems, s1, $2, $2. 50, $3, $3.5O, $4, $4.50, $5, $6, s6. 50, $7, $7.50, $s; pantaloons with:vests, s4, s4. 50, $5, $6, $e.5o, $7.5O, $8; boys, soc, 75c, s1, $125, $1.5O, s1.75, $2, $2.5O, ss, $3. 50, $4, $4.50. $5.
 Boys cape and cowl overcoats, $2.5O to $12
Morning journal and courier., 1887-10-05
Howe & StGtSOn
 SPECIAL NOTICE.
 WEDNESDAY and THURSDAY, October 9th and 9th,
 WE SHALL OFFER Unmatchable Bargains From o'clock i'm the morning until 6
 o'clock in the evening. Purchasers of Dry Goods cannot afford to neglect this opportunity, as we shall offer in- dividual bargains on each of these days such as were never before shown in this city. Don't forget the days,
October B and 6.

On Monday morning, October 3, we shall offer in our Silk Department pieces Black Faille Franchise at the unheard of price of S9c yard. Same quality is retailed to-day at $1.25.
 We have just received another real bargain in Dress Goods. This time it is 600 yards Fancy Wool Mixtures at 29c 8 yard. These goods would sell quickly at 39c.
 Just for the purpose of introducing good thing we shall sell one hundred and eighty dozen Ane Toilet Soap, large size cakes, war ranted pure, made expressly for us and stamped H. & s., at 46c dozen. This soap would be cheap at 75c dozen.
 One case Gents' Grey y-clouded Shirts and Drawers at 50c . garment. This underwear is rstailed in most stores at 75c. Please ex- anime and see the difference between this quality and the regular 50c goods.
 Our Ladies' White Merino Vests, with em- brOidered neck, pearl buttons, etc., at 39c 8 garment, are having a great sale. They ought to go lively, for the bargain is unmis- takable.
 Just received direct from the mill large assortment of 11-4 White Blankets, subject to slight imperfections or discolorations, that we shall sell at a, $2.s5, $2.75, $2.9S, $3.25, $4.50 and $4.75 pair. This lot of Blankets is worthy the attention of all prudent buy CTS.
Morning journal and courier., 1887-10-05

The State of the Game.-Lady customer ssHow much are grouse to-day, MT. Jibletss' Poulterer-s -s'Twelve shillings brace, ma'am. Shall send them" Lady customer is out grouse shooting and he'll call for them as he comes home. Punch.
Morning journal and courier., 1887-10-05

In Vermont experiments have been made in using crude petroleum mixed with saw dust as 8 fuel with satisfactory results
Morning journal and courier., 1887-10-05
DTSPEPSH

Causes it's victims to be miserable, hopeless. confused, and depressed in mind, very irrita- ble, languid, and drowsy. It is disease which does not get well of itself It requires careful, persistent attention, and remedy to throw off the causes and tone up the d1ges- tive organs till they perform their outles willingly. Hoods Sarsaparilla has proven just the required remedy in hundreds Of cases.
 "Ihave taken Hoods Sarsaparilla for dys- pepsia, from which have suffered two years. tried many other medicines, but none proved so satisfactory as Hoods Sarsaparllia." THOMAS COOK, Brush Electric Light Co.,, New York City,
Morning journal and courier., 1887-10-05
EDITORIAL NOTES.

George Francis Trains appearance as a labor sgitator and friend of anarchists is a sad spectacle
Morning journal and courier., 1887-10-05

And now we have 8 plough trust. Before long everything will be trusted" except the man who can't get trusted.